A TORPEDOER FOUNDERS SENDING JEWS TO THE FRONT.

Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1904, Page 2

A TORPEDOER FOUNDERS SENDING JEWS TO THE FRONT.

The Russians have derided to place the Mandjur’s armament in the custody of a Chinese cruiser. Admiral Wivomua brought the Oslyaha and seven torpedoes W Sand a Bay. A Russian torpedoer foundered between Porte Said and Crete. The crew were saved.

The Daily Mail states that Russia is mobilising two drihy cctfps in Turkestan and St. Petersburg. The correspondent of the French newspaper Aurore has announced that an enormous percentage of Jews is being sent to the front, including most of the Jewish doctors in St, Petersburg, through the reprehensible influences of their Christian professional rivals. RAILWAY CONCESSION IS KOREA.

Japan and korea have signed a Wiju-Seoul railway concession. The Russian newspapers state that a hundred young Boers have offered their services as scouts as a mark of gratitude for the medical comforts Russia sent during the South African war.

The steadier Empire has arrived from Kobe. An officer, interviewed, said the Japanese were confident of victory on the sea, but less confident in lanl fighting. Referring to the incident at Port Arthur when the Russians fired at a British ship which was leaving the port, he said Admiral Alexieffhad ordered no merchantmen to leave the port. A few hours later the order was rescinded* The first vessel to Clear was a British merchant ship. When passing the Russian guardship, the latter fired a shot across her bows before she could be brought round. Two live shells crashed through her hull, seriously injuring five persons and taking the leg off one child. The captain was taken aboard the guardship, and, after his papers had been examined, he was allowed to pass out. The Russians stated they had made a mistake. The matter was reported to the British Admiral. THE RUSSIAN RETREAT. STRATEGICAL POSITIONS MINED. General Kuropatkin had an immense ovation in St. Petersburg, the streets being densely packed to witness his departure for the East. Grand Dukes farewelled him at the station, where the army’s eikon was presented. The Russians, who are preparing to evacuate the position, poured kerosene over fifteen thousand tons of coal at the m uth of the Yalu for the purpose of firing it if the Japanese land.

All strategical points on the Yalu have been mined. FLIGHT OP RUSSIANS.

There are eighteen hundred Russians in New York who fled to escape conscription.

Japan is raising fifty million yen by postponing Government undertakings and is levying a seventy million yen war tax.

THE JAPANESE ADVANCE IN KOREA'

Reuter’s Seoul correspondent reports that there are thirty thousand Japanese in Korea. There are a few at Seoul. All have gone north. The Cologne newspaper Kolmsche Zeitung states the Japanese have landed at Tatungkau. on the north of the Yalu river, and have occupied Kialiente and Antung.